Antranig Basman
Appointment
Solution Network Member
Data Communities for Inclusion
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
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About
My principal current interest is creating data infrastructures that can be effectively owned by their communities. Today’s corporate governance infrastructures have effectively created a digital feudalism where citizens, grassroots groups and in particular marginalised people of all kinds are excluded from decision-making and ownership of the technological means needed in their everyday lives. I participate in schemes to create inclusive, pluralistic infrastructures which are respectful of multiple modes of knowledge, including Indigenous cultures, community scientists, semi-professional scientists and others. An umbrella for some of this work is the Knitting Data Communities page at Lichen Community Systems.
Relevant Publications
Colin B. D. Clark, Dana Ayotte, Antranig Basman, Jutta Treviranus: About Us, with Us: The Fluid Project's Inclusive Design Tools. HCI (7) 2016: 172-182
Colin B. D. Clark, Antranig Basman: Tracing a Paradigm for Externalization: Avatars and the GPII Nexus. Programming 2017: 31:1-31:5
Antranig Basman, Clayton H. Lewis, Colin B. D. Clark:The open authorial principle: supporting networks of authors in creating externalisable designs. Onward! 2018: 29-43
The Naturalist’s Friend - A case study and blueprint for pluralist data tools and infrastructure. PPIG 2019